Posts by gr8gatzby

Currently installed on my system are FF, IE, Chrome, and Safari...hands down Safari wins the speed contest, it has some pretty trick visual features too. I like Chrome's form and function, and it's speed is close to that of Safari. My...

has anyone compiled a list of programs that require XP mode to function

I just performed a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my HP Pavilion dv9823cl / 2.0ghz AMD X2 / 4gb / 500gb laptop. When attempting to install zone alarm firewall, i am presented with the following error message: "You...

Quote: Originally Posted by Seablade What you are going to have to do is create a boot disk. Does the Vaio have a Floppy in it? Essentially what will happen is the computer would boot the floppy, and that in turn...

I'm resurrecting a PIII era Sony Vaio that has no cd drive. I created a bootable USB stick via Ubuntu, in the hopes of loading the distro this way. However, booting via USB isn't shown as an option in the BIOS. There's got to be a way...

Installed a secondary 250gb disk into my HP Pavilion dv9823cl and when attempting to format the disk I receive the following error message: "the operation cannot be completed because the disk is not initialized" any ideas?

this is getting stranger by the moment. i booted up with one stick at a time and both checked out as bonafide 2gb chips. i then switched the order of the chips and installed the crucial 2gb into slot 1 and the factory installed samsung...

Bought a refurb HP dv9823cl from buy.com for $600. Specs: dual core 2.0ghz AMD TL-60, 17" WXGA, a/b/g/n, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M. Firstly, it came with 32bit Vista to which i wiped and attempted an XP install with no success in...

Just bought an HP Pavilion 17"/2ghz/250gb/3gb RAM/GeForce Go and it comes with Vista premium. I've never met a Vista system that I liked and have downgraded many to XP Pro for friends and clients. Is Vista ready for primetime yet,...

I've just installed VMware Workstation and am loading Fedora from a disk image. I am now at the screen in setup that is telling me that if I continue I will hose my entire HDD with the format. My spidey sense tells me that only the...